Se Llama Cristina OFF-BROADWAY REVIEWS

Photo: Carol Rosegg

NY TIMES

Opening Night:

April 3, 2015

Closing:

May 3, 2015

Theater: Intar Theatre / 500 West 52nd Street, New York, NY, 10019

Synopsis:

Enter this incredible, multi-layered fever dream in which a young man and woman wake up in a strange room, and must piece together their past identities and relationship while they construct a new future and grapple with the possibility of being parents.

NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW OF Se Llama Cristina

Se Llama Cristina,’ a Search for Identity, at the Intar Theater

Alexis Soloski

April 17, 2015: A magical realist fable with a side of fried chicken, Octavio Solis’s “Se Llama Cristina” begins with a Latino man and woman (Gerardo Rodriguez and Carmen Zilles) asleep in a squalid room. On waking, they can’t remember where they are or who they are. Eventually, they notice a crib, with a drumstick stuffed into the swaddling. “Maybe, just maybe, we’re still trippin’,” the man suggests. “You and me and the leg of chicken.” There’s definitely something psychoactive about Mr. Solis’s story, directed by Lou Moreno at Intar. An ultimately gentle nightmare, it plunges the couple into flashbacks, each one revealing just a little more about their calamitous pasts, then returns them to their unhappy, poultry-addled present. Gradually, they remember their names and backgrounds. But they still can’t recall what happened to the baby — or any presumptive side dishes.

OFF-BROADWAY / OTHER

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